Rom Walton
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Qualys
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRom Walton is a seasoned systems software engineer and engineering leader with over three decades of experience and 22 years in senior roles, currently managing the Qualys Cloud Agent organization in Bellevue, WA. He combines deep low-level expertise—Windows driver development, performance testing, and protocol design—with proven leadership in scaling teams, transitioning processes to Agile/Git, and implementing CI/CD for security-critical agents deployed on tens of millions of devices. His career spans major engineering programs at UC Berkeley’s BOINC (a globally used volunteer computing platform) through Microsoft and Oracle, where he optimized server and client systems for massive scale and reliability. Rom is equally comfortable in C/C++ systems work and in orchestrating cross-functional release engineering, recruitment, and customer support to reduce deployment pain points. A pragmatic problem-solver, he has a track record of extracting large performance gains from legacy systems and quietly sustaining widely used open-source infrastructure.
22 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Western Governors University
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BOINC/boinc
Feb 2004 - Nov 2017
Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 11642 commits, 45 PRs in 13 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Rom's contributions primarily focus on fixing issues within the VirtualBox wrapper, specifically addressing errors related to the communication between the wrapper and VirtualBox. The commits involve troubleshooting the VM's state, addressing potential crashes, and ensuring proper handling of screenshots and file uploads. The changes also include improvements to the build and deployment process for the web application.
grid-computingboincdistributed-computingvolunteer-computinghigh-performance-computing
Qualys/text4scanwin
Oct 2022 - Jun 2025
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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